What ECONOMIST donors give in federal races

Modest pool, high line count

$15,061,265 is the occupation-level dollar total. 47,419 is the itemization count. 1,790 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $318. Mean dollars per donor record are about $8,414. Repeat giving is about 26 itemizations per donor record.

47,419 lines from 1,790 records is a high-repeat pattern for a four-digit donor pool. The per-line mean of about $318 sits between high-volume workplace titles and concentrated finance strings.

These means are not typical-check estimates and not a measure of research salaries allocated to politics. The packet has no academic-versus-private split and no gift-size distribution.

ECONOMIST is not ANALYST and not PROFESSOR

ANALYST, FINANCIAL ANALYST, PROFESSOR, and RESEARCHER are neighboring occupation keys. This page cites only ECONOMIST: $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors. Those other strings stay outside the total unless the bulk extract normalized them here.

The FEC does not verify PhD records, NBER affiliation, or government-economist job series. Academic economists, bank economists, and people who used the title loosely can all appear. Occupation is the donor’s word on that line.

What the dollars do not measure

$15,061,265 is not a think-tank PAC total and not an academic-department census. Industry pages group employers. An economist at a university and an economist at a bank share this occupation string if they typed ECONOMIST.

Party is not stored in the occupation column. Open the ECONOMIST occupation page for recipient rows. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $15.1 million.

Using the hub

Cite $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors together. A sentence that shows only the dollars hides that the money arrived in 47,419 pieces. Use the occupations index to compare ECONOMIST with ANALYST without merging them.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Limits

1,790 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Extra words (chief economist, retired economist) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to ECONOMIST.

Do not treat about 26 itemizations per donor record as a typical giving cadence for all economists. It is an arithmetic ratio on this exact string.

Professional title without a degree match

ECONOMIST in this extract is $15,061,265 on 47,419 itemizations from 1,790 donor records. About 26 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. Mean line size is about $318; mean dollars per donor record are about $8,414. ANALYST, PROFESSOR, and RESEARCHER remain other hubs.

Industry pages will not equal $15,061,265. Degree status is not verified. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ECONOMIST, dollars equal $15,061,265, contributions equal 47,419, donors equal 1,790. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Compact millions ($15.1 million) are the same headline amount as $15,061,265, rounded to one decimal place.

47,419 itemizations from 1,790 records is a high-repeat pattern for a four-digit donor pool. Chief economist and retired economist create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to ECONOMIST. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. PhD records are not matched. Harvested facts have no cycle year.

1,790 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only. Use the occupations index to compare ECONOMIST with ANALYST without merging them. Quote the exact string, then $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors, and stop.

Academic and bank economists share ECONOMIST if they typed that noun. 47,419 itemizations from 1,790 donor records produced $15,061,265. About 26 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate. PROFESSOR and RESEARCHER stay outside. Degrees are not verified. Cite $15,061,265 with both counts. Exact-string matching is the method.

PhD records are not in the packet. 1,790 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Restate the citation as occupation equals ECONOMIST, dollars equal $15,061,265, contributions equal 47,419, donors equal 1,790.

Chief economist hybrids stay outside $15,061,265 unless they normalized to ECONOMIST. Open the live occupation hub for recipient rows. Compact millions ($15.1 million) match the dollar total rounded to one decimal place.

Questions

How much have ECONOMIST donors given in FEC records?

Occupation ECONOMIST is attached to $15,061,265 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 47,419 contributions and 1,790 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a PhD census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are professors included in ECONOMIST?

Only if they typed ECONOMIST. PROFESSOR is a separate occupation string. This page covers ECONOMIST: $15,061,265, 47,419 contributions, and 1,790 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why are there so many ECONOMIST contributions per donor?

47,419 itemizations from 1,790 donors implies about 26 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $318. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing ECONOMIST prove a graduate degree?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify degrees. Quote 47,419 contributions and 1,790 donor records with the $15,061,265 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.